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Israel, Saudi Arabia and the US are About to Invade Syria

3 January 2018

The Russian Defense Ministry recently announced that the
United States is training a new armed force at the former refugee camp
in El Khaseq province, citing the Center for Syrian Reconciliation. It’s
believed that this force will be used in an attempt to topple the
Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad. What is even more
curious is that militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
and Jabhat al-Nusra are going to form the backbone of this military
force. The Western coalition led by the United States carries on its
attempt to utilize radical militant groups in Syria, in spite of
repeated statements that it is supposedly engaged in the region to fight
such militants. According to the details provided by the Center for
Syrian Reconciliation, American special forces instructors are forming
new armed units from previously dissociated groups of militants. Local
residents report that the Western coalition has been using what used to
be a refugee camp for six months to create a new armed force, bringing
militants to El Khaseq from various parts of Syria.

According to the
Russian Defense Ministry, some 750 terrorists arrived from Raqqa, Deir
ez-Zor, Abu Kamal and the territories to the east of the Euphrates. The
newly formed backbone of the gang consists of more than 400
battle-hardened ISIS militants, who, due to the support of the United
States left Raqqa last October with little effort. It is expected that
soon this armed unit will be deployed in southern Syria to engage
government forces. Earlier Russia’s media announced that the spokesman
for the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov accused the Pentagon
of lying to the international community regarding Washington’s plans to
withdraw American forces from Syria. According to the head of the US
Department of Defense, James Mattis, ISIS forces are defeated in Syria,
but the war with them is not over yet.

It’s curious that as far as similar training camps for militant
forces across Syria and beyond its borders are concerned, there’s well
over a dozen, with a number of them operating in Jordan. Those camps are
being used by various intelligence agencies, including Iranian,
American, and even Turkish organizations. Each agency pursues its own
objectives. This unfolds against the backdrop of the recent statement
made by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Khmeimim military base
regarding Moscow’s intended reduction of its military presence in Syria.
In turn, Washington is busy preparing “its own” militants to fight
Assad, taking advantage of what it hopes is a security vacuum once
Russia withdraws. Moreover, Saudi Arabia and Israel make no secret of
their plans to strike Iranian and Hezbollah forces in southern Syria
simultaneously with launching a military operation into southern
Lebanon. It is expected that Washington is going to support these
actions by providing close air support to Saudi and Israeli forces in
Syria. That is why militants of the so-called Free Syrian Army, formed
by deserters from the Syrian army, were being trained in Jordan.

The
strikes inside Syrian territory are to be launched from several
directions – from the area of the Golan Heights occupied by Israel,
across the Lebanese border once Lebanon is infiltrated by Israeli
forces, and across the Jordanian border. It’s curious that there’s no
more that 60 miles to cover from the Jordanian-Syrian border to
Damascus, and over a half of this territory is already occupied by armed
opposition forces. It cannot be ruled out that pro-US SDF Kurdish
forces will strike Damascus from the east, although this step can
provoke outrage in Ankara which seeks to impede any form of Kurdish
expansion in Syria. Spontaneous attacks may also be launched from
refugee camps, where ISIS militants are being trained, as it’s been
announced by Russia’s Ministry of Defense.

Should events start unfolding along this scenario with Russia’s air
corps departing, Damascus is going to find itself trapped by its
opponents. After all, the Free Syria Army have recently reached 30,000
in number. There’s another 25,000 ISIS militants are scattered along the
Euphrates and hiding in Idlib. In the southwest, there’s another 10,000
anti-government militants prepared for action. As for Damascus, it has
no more than 40,000 soldiers at its disposal supported with up to 40,000
Iranian soldiers and Shia militiamen from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and
Pakistan. As for the Syrian Air Force, it has been seriously depleted by
the ongoing conflict, while the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia maintain
formidable air power.

Moreover, Riyadh is building up a military
coalition against Syria out of a long list of Arab countries, including
the UAE, Jordan and Egypt. This leaves the Syrian government clearly at
in a disadvantageous position together with Iran and Hezbollah.

In fact, the announcement made by the Russian Defense Ministry hardly
contained any groundbreaking news, except for the announcement that
those camps were recruiting militants. All states engaged in the Syrian
conflict have been pursuing their own interests between 2011-2015,
before the arrival of Russian forces. This struggle entailed the
training of forces fighting as proxies for external players. Syria’s
opponents were better funded, armed, and organized, able to make
efficient use of a vast amount of foreign resources on hand. That is why
the scales began tipping against Damascus three years ago. In 2015,
Russia entered the war, breaking the back of anti-government militants,
but this success does not automatically equate to victory. In fact,
victory is a long way off for Damascus. What Moscow could do toward this
end is destroy the black market economy created by anti-government
forces, which could make the struggle against Damascus both extremely
costly and highly unprofitable. War is a business, even if it’s a bloody
one, and removing the profit from it removes the motive driving it.

In fact, the Soviet Union was fully aware of the fact that if one
wants to have strong allied countries, a strong economic foundation was
required for those allies to build upon. Back in the day a number of
Arab, African and Asian nations would receive economic assistance in
order to have sustainable military forces.

Due to a variety of reasons
this work hasn’t always been highly successful, but the advantages of
such a strategy are simply undeniable. Modern Russia hasn’t spent a lot
of time doing this largely due to the lack of a common ideology, since
back in the Soviet days Moscow believed it was its duty to support
national liberation movements aimed at achieving certain social benefits
for a government and its people. But even today Moscow is trying to
make its allies highly self-sufficient, but the problem is that without
direct Russian support they are yet able to survive economically.

Here, in fact, lies the answer to various kinds of questions and
statements regarding the end of the war in Syria. Undoubtedly, the
United States, the West as a whole and local regional players like Saudi
Arabia, Israel, Iran and Turkey will continue to pursue their policies,
including through proxy forces. It is only possible to oppose such a
game through a symmetrical policy of strengthening the Assad government
or to create in its place a more capable one that would enjoy more
popular support. If there is no such policy, then calling attention to
illegal US actions is merely a distraction from Syria’s larger problems. The United States behaves as it sees fit, as it is fighting for its own
interests, disinterested in international norms or international law.

As a matter of fact, international law was trampled by Washington
itself first in Yugoslavia, then mortally wounded in Iraq and then
finally buried under the “color revolutions” of Egypt, Yemen, Libya,
Syria, Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova. This means that the US is going to
recklessly pursue its interests in Syria and the Middle East.
Understandably, Washington is desperate to keep under its control the
leading oil and gas producing region of the planet, to keep its control
over the main sea routes from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic, keeping
its hand on the flow of goods from Europe to Asia and vice versa.

That
is why the US is going to oppose in every possible way growing Russian
influence in the Middle East. This means it will be blocking the supply
of Russian gas to the EU by land from the south – through Turkey, Syria,
whether it is the “Turkish flow” or the “southern stream” through
Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq and Syria to the Mediterranean coast and further
to Greece and Italy. But there is no ideological struggle, only oneof
pure, self-serving pragmatism. As long as Russia is in Washington’s way,
it will not be able to resist China, derailing such project as the One
Belt, One Road.

And as President Putin tries to withdraw from the Syrian conflict as
soon as possible, the task of the West is the opposite – to drag Moscow
into Middle Eastern affairs, in Syria, Egypt, Libya and Sudan, while
attaining its own goals, among which includes the overthrow of President
Assad. This explains the perpetual failure of the Geneva negotiations.
It is no accident that Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennadiy Gatilov
has commented regarding the statement of the Syrian opposition calling
for the mandatory resignation of the President
of the Syrian Arab Republic. According to Gatilov, the opposition of
Syria continues to insist on the resignation of President Assad, despite
the fact that earlier all parties agreed that there would be no
preconditions to the negotiations. Deputy Foreign Minister of the
Russian Foreign Ministry noted that this is a serious embarrassment.

In
Gatilov’s opinion, it is unclear what kind of reaction the Syrian
opposition expects in this case from the Syrian delegation. Therefore,
in part the talks took place without the participation of the Syrian
government, as it described the opposition’s demands unacceptable. So
the games in the peace process are over. Renewed war is unavoidable.

The commanders of the Syrian “Tigers”, a special forces unit that
remains the best at Assad’s disposal didn’t try to conceal their
irritation when the militants of the pro-Damascus Fatemiyoun Brigade and
Liwa al-Quds surrendered a number of positions between Mayadin and Abu
Kamal, that had previously been liberated by the Tigers at the expense
of huge losses. And one can easily understand their position, as ISIS
intensifies its operations, Syrian forces have little to no air support
to rely on. That is why both Syrian and Iranian forces have been
suffering extremely high losses lately. In just two days they have lost
more than 100 men, while pro-Damascus forces keep surrendering
territories and positions.

Iran assembled two
divisions, the Fatemiyoun Brigade and Zeynabiyun with Shia fighters from
Afghanistan and Pakistan, respectively. The leadership and training of
these units is entrusted to the Iranian special forces of the al-Quds
division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under General Kasem
Sulejmani. Within the territory of Iran there are up to a million
refugees from Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Iranian leadership is
trying to employ these people.

The war in Iraq and Syria requires huge
human resources, that is why Afghan and Pakistani refugees have found
themselves involved. In dire situations people are usually forced to
agree to sign a contract. Iranian citizens also serve as mercenaries,
and a large part of them go to war in about the same way: among them
there are many ordinary criminals. It is clear that the morale of all of
these people is extremely low, and therefore they are fighting badly.

What is worse is that Syrians of non-Alawite origin are not as eager to
fight, so the impending beginning of a new anti-Damascus campaign does
not hold much hope for peace in this war torn country.